Got Olympic Fever? Maybe it's Zika.

If I was still on Facebook, I'd have posted:  "Who gives a crap about the summer Olympics?"

I went to bed early and  missed the opening ceremony, featuring somebody nobody ever heard of, lighting the flame.  

Spare me.  In recent times the once revered Olympic Games have morphed into Theater - Over-hyped, ultra- commercialized and super-dull.  Do you enjoy watching people swim, when the difference between winner and loser is hundreths of a second? Is Rowing really a sport? Four chicks bashing a volleyball back and forth in the sand?  (Ok, maybe that is worth watching) Gymnastics - a totally corrupt judging system?   

 For me, these hyper-nationalistic competitions are complete yawners.  I would only tune in if I needed a good snooze.  


The most interesting aspect is the threat of Zika, or that the outdoor swimmers might encounter a dead body in the surf.    

Commercialism: I'm surprised Michael Phelps doesn't have a Nike tattoo festooned on his back so he can garner more $$$.  I yearn for the old days when US only sent amateur athletes and still did well against the competition.  Now, everyone cheats, because it is winning that is all-important.  Forget the thrill of competition at its finest.  

Zika, Zika, Zika

Other than Boxing, who gives a crap about the Olympics?  I can't wait until the games are over.


Here is my take on the "games" 

Archery - people shooting at targets. followed by more people shooting at targets. They need to be shooting apples off a relative's head to make it interesting.

Badminton - Not an olympic sport; a backyard frivolity of the rich and poor alike.

Basketball - don't we already have enough basketball on TV? No longer amateurs, just a bunch of off-duty pros who have not practiced enough to play well together as a team.

Boxing - I might watch boxing if there are Cubans fighting USA.

Canoe Racing - yikes is this really a "sport"?    

Cycling - BMX

Cycling - Mountain bike

Cycling - Road

Cycling - Track - Wow! 4 types of cycling competition.  As we know all cyclers are doping or taking steroids, especially the ones who categorically deny it. Right, Lance Armstrong?

Diving - into filthy bay water?

Equestrian - forcing captive animals to jump over things.

Fencing - ooh I'm touched.  They should actually have duels to the death. 

Field hockey - for atheletes who never graduated from high school.

Golf - putting a ball an inch and a quarter in diameter on a ball 8,000 miles in diameter and trying not to hit the big one.

Gymnastics - Girls damaging their hips and backs for entertainment.  They will be cripples by age 40.

Handball - fun to play. Tedious to watch.

Judo - everything happens so fast you need to watch the replays in slow motion. Boring too.

Marathon swimming - Watch out for crocs.

Modern pentathlon - I liked the ancient pentathalon better.

Rhythmic gymnastics - for girls who don't want to be cripples at age 40.  Boring too.

Rowing - good exercise boring to watch.

Rugby sevens -honestly, don't know anything about this sport; don't care, either.

Sailing - People should sail for fun, not for sport.  Most people who sail have no sense of humor.

Shooting - this would be good if they got some death row inmates to chase down and kill.

Soccer - Lets be honest the only action in a soccer game is the riots among the spectators.  

Swimming - Snoozer supreme.

Synchronized swimming - probably more fun than it looks.  Not a sport, though.

Table tennis - ping pong, ping pong, smash.  Been there, seen it before.

Taekwondo- where you can get your kicks if you are into that sort of thing.

Tennis - serve, return, hit, hit, lob, smash.  Kid run and pick up ball.  Seen it. Who cares.

Trampoline - not a sport.  Backyard entertainment until kid damages spine in freak accident.

Triathlon - exhausting to watch.  Tri-atheletes have no personality and no sense of humor.

Volleyball - ok to watch if the chicks are good looking.  Tedious otherwise.

Water polo - a good way to get drowned, IMHO.  Watch out for brain-eating ameba. 

Weightlifting - not a sport worthy of olympic competition. Weightlifters are fat and stupid.

Wrestling - Always makes me uncomfortable to watch two guys in such intimate embraces.